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Show Big Red Stuns Aggies, Defends Win to Wire i to . P1' "t' 1 1 - - Mary Furness, Hilary Attwool . . . represent team victors. Underdog Utah engineered two fourth quarter touchdown drives, then staged a last-minute goal line stand Saturday to edge Utah State, 25-23, in their traditional football game. A ROMNEY STADIUM record crowd of 15,220 watched in 30-degree 30-degree weather as the Utah Redskins Red-skins came from behind on the passing arm of Gary Hertzfeldt to overtake the heavier and slow-moving slow-moving Aggies. Hertzfeldt passed 35 yards to wingback Mike Davis for the winning points. Utah State, favored from one to two touchdowns, almost pulled out the game in the final three minutes. The Staters drove from their 25 to the Utah one where halfback Larry Campbell was piled up as the game ended. Utah State's Bill Munson, brilliant bril-liant in defeat, set a school record for passing yardage in a single game completing 14 of 24 aerials for 223 yards. He passed for one touchdown. Hertzfeldt hit on two scoring tosses, one to Davis and the other oth-er an 18-yarder to end Roy Jefferson. Jef-ferson. He also set up a third touchdown with a nine-yard pass and a 19-yard quarterback sneak. Fullback Allen Jacobs carried car-ried the ball borne from the seven on the next play. The loss was only the second of the season for Utah State against eight victories but it probably snuffed out Aggie hopes for a bowl bid. State had been angling for an invitation to the Sun Bowl. FOR UTAH, the big victory was No. 4 against six defeats. Campbell got two touchdowns in the Utah State losing cause, going three and one, yards in a 20-point second quarter. The final Aggie points came on a 22-yard field . goal by Chris Pella. Ron Coleman romped for the first Utah score, slicing over left tackle from 10 yards to cap a 68-yard 68-yard march. It was this touchdown that brought Utah's only conversion of the day, kicked by Jefferson. The game was one of the few played in the nation, saddened by the death of President Kennedy. Halftime ceremonies and other festivities fes-tivities of the traditional battle went on as scheduled. |